Read lwpcook:
If the document you want to fetch is too large to be kept in memory, then
you have two alternatives. You can instruct the library to write the
document content to a file (second $ua->request() argument is a file name)
Go read that part.
>From: Rob McMillin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: gil cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: How to write output of a GET request to disk?
>Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 01:12:27 -0700
>
>gil cohen wrote:
>
> > Okay here's some example code for the first part, but alas, I'm not too
>sure
> > about the second:
> >
> > use LWP::UserAgent;
> > $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
> > $ua->agent("$0/0.1 " . $ua->agent);
> > # $ua->agent("Mozilla/8.0") # pretend we are very capable browser
> > $file = "test.txt";
> > $url = "http://www.slashdot.org";
> > open OUTPUT, ">$file" or die ("Could not open $file for writing:
>$!\n");
>
>Right... thanks. I think you don't understand that these files run into
>hundreds of megabytes. I do NOT want the data to be stored in memory, even
>in
>an intermediate way. This was exactly what I was trying to avoid.
>
>
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>
>
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